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Baltic gives the Aquascaphe GMT MK-II a traveller movement

The French brand adds a jumping local-hour hand, a 200-metre rating and a starting price of €850.

Hen & Mills Editorial · 3 min read · 4 September 2026

• The Miyota 9075 lets the local hour hand jump independently without stopping the watch.
• A 39.5mm steel case, sapphire 24-hour bezel and 200-metre rating keep the Aquascaphe tool-watch brief intact.
• Prices start at €850 on FKM rubber or €915 on steel, with delivery listed for mid-September.

Baltic unveiled the Aquascaphe GMT MK-II on 3 September 2026, fitting its travel watch with a reworked 39.5mm case, 200 metres of water resistance and a Miyota movement that lets the local hour hand jump independently. The result costs €850 on rubber or €915 on either of Baltic's steel bracelets. For a watch built around travel, that combination of mechanical convenience and a still-reasonable price is the important change.

The collection has four bezel colours: blue, red, grey and green. Each sits over a glossy black dial with a fourth hand for home time, a date at six and a bidirectional 24-hour bezel. The green version shown here splits its sapphire insert between deep blue and bright green, making it one of the brighter choices in the new range.

A traveller GMT inside a dive-watch case

The steel case measures 39.5mm across, 47mm from lug to lug and 13.8mm thick including the double-domed sapphire crystal. Those dimensions do not chase dress-watch slimness, although the short span between the lugs should keep the watch manageable on a wide range of wrists. A screwed crown and new crown guard underline the practical brief.

Baltic lists the case at 12mm without the crystal, which explains some of the visual height. The crystal rises above the bezel in the vintage Aquascaphe style, while an internal anti-reflective coating protects the exterior surface from another exposed coating. The lug width is a conventional 20mm.

Water resistance is 200 metres. Baltic sharpens the case with wider lugs, more pronounced angles and a new crown guard. The bezel is bidirectional and runs through 48 clicks, giving two detents for every hour on its 24-hour scale.

The dive-watch influence is strongest on the dial. Large applied markers use blue-glowing BGW9 Super-LumiNova, while the broad hour and minute hands are both faceted and luminous. Baltic has kept the date window tucked into the six o'clock marker, leaving the upper half of the dial clear. The black surface and white printing do most of the legibility work; colour is concentrated on the bezel and the slim GMT hand.

The sapphire bezel insert provides the same scratch-resistant material as the crystal, but with a printed 24-hour scale instead of a diving countdown. Its two-tone split makes daytime and overnight hours easier to separate, while the glossy black dial keeps all four colour variants on one common base.

The Miyota 9075 changes how it travels

The previous generation used an office-GMT arrangement, in which the extra 24-hour hand was the adjustable display. The Miyota 9075 changes the useful control. The conventional hour hand can now be adjusted without stopping the seconds hand or disrupting the second time zone.

That makes arriving in a new time zone much simpler. The main hands can show local time while the arrow-tipped GMT hand stays on home time. The bezel can then be rotated to read another zone if required. There is no need to stop the movement and reset the minutes after a flight.

The automatic 9075 provides about 42 hours of power reserve and stop seconds for precise setting. Baltic assembles the completed watch in France. The movement choice brings the traveller-GMT control into a watch that remains below €1,000 on every factory strap or bracelet.

Four colours, rubber or steel

The collection page lists blue, red, grey and green versions. The green reference shown here uses a glossy black dial, a blue-and-green bezel and the same 39.5mm case detailed above. Baltic offers it on a black or blue FKM rubber strap for €850. A beads-of-rice bracelet or flat-link bracelet lifts the price to €915.

The bracelet choice changes the character more than the colour. Beads of rice leans into Baltic's mid-century references, flat link makes the case look more angular, and rubber is the straightforward option for water and hot weather. Every option uses a 20mm attachment, so the watch is easy to move onto a different strap later.

Delivery is listed for mid-September. The Aquascaphe GMT MK-II does not try to make the 9075 exotic; it uses the movement to correct the old model's least convenient feature and adds the water resistance expected from the Aquascaphe name. At €850, the green model is a capable travel watch with real dive-watch hardware, not a decorative GMT wearing a rotating bezel.

The €65 bracelet step leaves every configuration below €1,000. All of Baltic's straps are compatible with the watch, and the conventional 20mm lug width also leaves plenty of room for owners to choose a different strap.